Category: music

A new unauthorized biography of the great Jon Vickers admires the art but … – The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Online music retailer plans to set up kiosks in retail music stores and malls where consumers can custom-pick and make their own music CDs. – Variety

– to take over running of The Dallas Opera. – The Dallas Morning News

Fans wonder if the latest Carnegie Hall concert was her last. – Financial Times

A report from the Oslo contemporary music festival. Some Brits, the usual Americans and lots of mysticism. – Financial Times

– the Guarneri String Quartet says goodbye to one of its own with a farewell tour. – Los Angeles Times

Pianist Ivo Pogorelich played an all-time slow Rachmaninoff concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra last week to a chorus of boos. Then he canceled his performance with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Just the latest in a series of unhappy incidents. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

Eighteen years after Glenn Gould died, an expert makes a case that he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome – that would explain the pianist’s eccentricities, he claims. – The Sydney Morning Herald

Deutsche Grammophon releases a new line of contemporary music – a nod to proper packaging. – The New York Press

Music business types gathered last week to talk about the commercial future of popular music. No consumers allowed. “I hate when they call music ‘content’,” says one musician. “I play the guitar, not content.” – Wired